Post-deadline pinch-hits
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history_exchangeThere are two post-deadline pinch-hits. If you have been defaulted by mistake, please contact me ASAP. Thank you.
Pinch-hit 1 (Anne Neville Queen of England, Hatshepsut of Egypt, Edith Swannesha)
Request 1 by betony
Historical RPF
Anne Neville Queen of England
Anne Neville, my forever girl :D. I love her to bits, and ship her with Richard like there's no tomorrow, but other aspects of her life I'd love to see explored: dealing with being the privileged Kingmaker's daughter (and Princess of Wales) to a traitor trapped in her brother-in-law's estate/the infamous cookery shop. Her relationship with her mother, which could have only become more twisted when the widowed Countess came north (on the one hand, she was declared legally dead one year after; and on the other, there's this hilarious anecdote four years later about her ordering a fancy golden tablet, likely the Middleham Jewel, and pissing off Richard, which I would dearly love to see Anne's involvement in.) Her sisterhood with Isabel, of course, but also Margaret, her half-sister who was also a participant in her coronation. And/or just give me snarky Richard/Anne banter and I shall be a happy gel:)
Letter: http://betony.dreamwidth.org/7153.html
Request 2 by betony
Historical RPF
Hatshepsut of Egypt
The original woman king. I first met Hatshepsut in Mara, Daughter of the Nile, and as negative as that portrayal is, I loved her nonetheless. I love her success, her cleverness, and her grandeur. But I confess what I'd most love to see explored is her relationship with Senenmut and/or with her daughter Neferure. I find Neferure's assistance of her mother fascinating - she seems to have taken on the ceremonial aspects of the queenship - as well as her sudden disappearance from the historical record. Whatever happened to her? What was her relationship with her mother like? And Senenmut - to me, he and Hatshepsut were the meeting of two equally brilliant and witty minds (yes, I ship them, too, and would love something from their first, sparky meetings as young people) - but what also intrigues me is that in all the portraits I've seen, it's always Senenmut portrayed with Neferure. I've always thought of the three of them making up their own family, even if Neferure and Senenmut aren't biologically related, and also of Senenmut having the more gender-stereotypical role of being associated with the children as compared to Hatshepsut.
Letter: http://betony.dreamwidth.org/7153.html
Request 3 by betony
Historical RPF
Edith Swannesha
This is probably the request I know the least about, but the one that's always puzzled me: Edith Swan-Neck, as I discovered her, was Harold's long-term mistress and effectively his wife, only to be put away for another Edith, Edith of Mercia - but at the same time, Harold seems to have very little interest in his official wife, and apparently returned to Edith Swan-Neck the night before Hastings. At any rate, she's supposedly the one who identified his body - and how awful must that have been. That said, though, before I could think of Edith Swan-Neck as a poor, down-trodden girlfriend, she was apparently one of the richest women in all England and clever and bold enough to rescue Harold's body when even Harold's mother couldn't ransom it. Add to that the proposed identification with Richeldis, who apparently had a vision of the Virgin Mary at Walsingham and established a chapel there, and I am officially intrigued. I'd love anything about her: a young Edith being wooed and won by Harold, her reaction to his (re-)marriage, and/or her walking the battlefield to find and bury his body.
Letter: http://betony.dreamwidth.org/7153.html
Pinch-hit 2 (Thérésa Cabarrus, Emmuska Orczy, Virginia Hall, Grace Hopper, Elizabeth Zimmermann)
Request 1 by lirin
Historical RPF
Thérésa Cabarrus
I first ran into Cabarrus in Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, but it turns out the 'Tallien was so in love with this woman that he basically forced the end of the French Revolution just so she would be safe' plot was actually taken from real life (although the Scarlet Pimpernel's intervention was of course added). Cabarrus had a very eventful life and I'd be interested in any part of it, from childhood to motherhood and beyond. Her acquaintanceship with Joséphine de Beauharnais is also of interest.
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
Request 2 by lirin
Historical RPF
Emmuska Orczy
Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel novels were the first fandom that I fell in love with.
There's a story that a friend of Orczy's had gotten a story published and Orczy thought "I can do better than that, so if she can get published, so can I." I'd enjoy seeing her getting her start as a struggling writer, or trying to get The Scarlet Pimpernel published (they had to adapt it into a play before they could get it published), or her relationship with her husband, or working with Terry & Neilson to bring her story to the stage. Or, y'know, accidentally time-travelling and realizing Thérésa Cabarrus is a real person nothing like her fictional version, or having to solve a mystery and realizing it's not as easy as she made it seem in her books (Orczy's "Old Man in the Corner" and "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard" were not as popular as SP but sold decently), or anything at all.
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
Request 3 by lirin
Historical RPF
Virginia Hall
Hall sounds epically cool. After losing her leg when she accidentally shot herself while hunting, she named her wooden leg "Cuthbert." I want to see the adventures of Virginia Hall and Cuthbert spying in Europe! I love the story (shows up in multiple sources, so seems likely to be true) that she informed London she was having trouble with Cuthbert and they responded "If Cuthbert troublesome, eliminate him."
I'd also love to see how she met her husband Paul Goillot, a fellow OSS agent. (Did one of them rescue the other? Did they both rescue each other? Can they have a totally romantic action scene?)
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
Request 4 by lirin
Historical RPF
Grace Hopper
Another woman I'm not as familiar with as I'd like to be. When people talk about women in computing, Ada Lovelace is often mentioned, but the computer she wrote programs for was never even built. I don't know why Grace Hopper isn't better known. She invented the first compiler, which is huge, and also contributed to the creation of the computer language COBOL, which is still used today (though generally not by choice but because it's in legacy code; it's pretty dated by now). I'd like to see something about her experiences leading to these achievements, and/or what it was like for her working in an extremely male-dominated field.
BTW...stealth Agent Carter references welcome. ;-)
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
Request 5 by lirin
Historical RPF
Elizabeth Zimmermann
(See my letter for the long, gushing-over-how-awesome EZ is version of this request.)
I'd love to see something involving the newsletter, or an expansion on any of the stories EZ tells in her books: Like reading to her kids "The time taken for the tongue to catch up with eye was usually enough for a stitch to be picked up or new wool joined in. When more complicated difficulties arose, the family just had to wait a few minutes." (Knitter's Almanac p. 45) Or swatching in a park "The man at the other end of the bench must have thought I was out of my fur, making buttonhole after buttonhole on a long skinny strip of knitting." (ditto p. 79) Or the infamous tale of her knitting while riding behind her husband on his motorcycle, and he had no idea until a passing motorist ratted her out. (The Opinionated Knitter, page unknown)
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
To claim a pinch-hit, either reply to this post (comments are screened) or send me a PM. Tell me both your ao3 username and which pinch-hit you are claiming.
Historical RPF
Anne Neville Queen of England
Anne Neville, my forever girl :D. I love her to bits, and ship her with Richard like there's no tomorrow, but other aspects of her life I'd love to see explored: dealing with being the privileged Kingmaker's daughter (and Princess of Wales) to a traitor trapped in her brother-in-law's estate/the infamous cookery shop. Her relationship with her mother, which could have only become more twisted when the widowed Countess came north (on the one hand, she was declared legally dead one year after; and on the other, there's this hilarious anecdote four years later about her ordering a fancy golden tablet, likely the Middleham Jewel, and pissing off Richard, which I would dearly love to see Anne's involvement in.) Her sisterhood with Isabel, of course, but also Margaret, her half-sister who was also a participant in her coronation. And/or just give me snarky Richard/Anne banter and I shall be a happy gel:)
Letter: http://betony.dreamwidth.org/7153.html
Request 2 by betony
Historical RPF
Hatshepsut of Egypt
The original woman king. I first met Hatshepsut in Mara, Daughter of the Nile, and as negative as that portrayal is, I loved her nonetheless. I love her success, her cleverness, and her grandeur. But I confess what I'd most love to see explored is her relationship with Senenmut and/or with her daughter Neferure. I find Neferure's assistance of her mother fascinating - she seems to have taken on the ceremonial aspects of the queenship - as well as her sudden disappearance from the historical record. Whatever happened to her? What was her relationship with her mother like? And Senenmut - to me, he and Hatshepsut were the meeting of two equally brilliant and witty minds (yes, I ship them, too, and would love something from their first, sparky meetings as young people) - but what also intrigues me is that in all the portraits I've seen, it's always Senenmut portrayed with Neferure. I've always thought of the three of them making up their own family, even if Neferure and Senenmut aren't biologically related, and also of Senenmut having the more gender-stereotypical role of being associated with the children as compared to Hatshepsut.
Letter: http://betony.dreamwidth.org/7153.html
Request 3 by betony
Historical RPF
Edith Swannesha
This is probably the request I know the least about, but the one that's always puzzled me: Edith Swan-Neck, as I discovered her, was Harold's long-term mistress and effectively his wife, only to be put away for another Edith, Edith of Mercia - but at the same time, Harold seems to have very little interest in his official wife, and apparently returned to Edith Swan-Neck the night before Hastings. At any rate, she's supposedly the one who identified his body - and how awful must that have been. That said, though, before I could think of Edith Swan-Neck as a poor, down-trodden girlfriend, she was apparently one of the richest women in all England and clever and bold enough to rescue Harold's body when even Harold's mother couldn't ransom it. Add to that the proposed identification with Richeldis, who apparently had a vision of the Virgin Mary at Walsingham and established a chapel there, and I am officially intrigued. I'd love anything about her: a young Edith being wooed and won by Harold, her reaction to his (re-)marriage, and/or her walking the battlefield to find and bury his body.
Letter: http://betony.dreamwidth.org/7153.html
Pinch-hit 2 (Thérésa Cabarrus, Emmuska Orczy, Virginia Hall, Grace Hopper, Elizabeth Zimmermann)
Request 1 by lirin
Historical RPF
Thérésa Cabarrus
I first ran into Cabarrus in Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, but it turns out the 'Tallien was so in love with this woman that he basically forced the end of the French Revolution just so she would be safe' plot was actually taken from real life (although the Scarlet Pimpernel's intervention was of course added). Cabarrus had a very eventful life and I'd be interested in any part of it, from childhood to motherhood and beyond. Her acquaintanceship with Joséphine de Beauharnais is also of interest.
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
Request 2 by lirin
Historical RPF
Emmuska Orczy
Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel novels were the first fandom that I fell in love with.
There's a story that a friend of Orczy's had gotten a story published and Orczy thought "I can do better than that, so if she can get published, so can I." I'd enjoy seeing her getting her start as a struggling writer, or trying to get The Scarlet Pimpernel published (they had to adapt it into a play before they could get it published), or her relationship with her husband, or working with Terry & Neilson to bring her story to the stage. Or, y'know, accidentally time-travelling and realizing Thérésa Cabarrus is a real person nothing like her fictional version, or having to solve a mystery and realizing it's not as easy as she made it seem in her books (Orczy's "Old Man in the Corner" and "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard" were not as popular as SP but sold decently), or anything at all.
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
Request 3 by lirin
Historical RPF
Virginia Hall
Hall sounds epically cool. After losing her leg when she accidentally shot herself while hunting, she named her wooden leg "Cuthbert." I want to see the adventures of Virginia Hall and Cuthbert spying in Europe! I love the story (shows up in multiple sources, so seems likely to be true) that she informed London she was having trouble with Cuthbert and they responded "If Cuthbert troublesome, eliminate him."
I'd also love to see how she met her husband Paul Goillot, a fellow OSS agent. (Did one of them rescue the other? Did they both rescue each other? Can they have a totally romantic action scene?)
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
Request 4 by lirin
Historical RPF
Grace Hopper
Another woman I'm not as familiar with as I'd like to be. When people talk about women in computing, Ada Lovelace is often mentioned, but the computer she wrote programs for was never even built. I don't know why Grace Hopper isn't better known. She invented the first compiler, which is huge, and also contributed to the creation of the computer language COBOL, which is still used today (though generally not by choice but because it's in legacy code; it's pretty dated by now). I'd like to see something about her experiences leading to these achievements, and/or what it was like for her working in an extremely male-dominated field.
BTW...stealth Agent Carter references welcome. ;-)
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
Request 5 by lirin
Historical RPF
Elizabeth Zimmermann
(See my letter for the long, gushing-over-how-awesome EZ is version of this request.)
I'd love to see something involving the newsletter, or an expansion on any of the stories EZ tells in her books: Like reading to her kids "The time taken for the tongue to catch up with eye was usually enough for a stitch to be picked up or new wool joined in. When more complicated difficulties arose, the family just had to wait a few minutes." (Knitter's Almanac p. 45) Or swatching in a park "The man at the other end of the bench must have thought I was out of my fur, making buttonhole after buttonhole on a long skinny strip of knitting." (ditto p. 79) Or the infamous tale of her knitting while riding behind her husband on his motorcycle, and he had no idea until a passing motorist ratted her out. (The Opinionated Knitter, page unknown)
Letter: http://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/655.html
To claim a pinch-hit, either reply to this post (comments are screened) or send me a PM. Tell me both your ao3 username and which pinch-hit you are claiming.
